Fig. 30. The zonule and cataract extraction. A. Lens after removal intracapsularly by cryoprobe (round probe mark above). Only a few tips of anterior zonular fibers and a sector of meridional zonules remain (Gomori's hematoxylin, × 10). B. Experimental stripping of zonular complex at level of posterior (P) and meridional zonular fibers, with a few deeper inserting zonules revealed (arrows) (SEM, × 600). (Streeten BW: The zonular insertion: A scanning electron microscopic study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 16:364, 1977)